Parents are failing to put enough fruit and veg into their children's packed lunches, health experts warn.

Around 40% of primary school children's lunch-boxes do not contain any fruit or vegetables, according to the School Food Trust.

The Department of Health is warning millions of people in at-risk groups to get vaccinated.

Scotland's latest Maggie's centre, providing care for cancer patients, opens in the grounds of Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow.

The contrast between the health of babies born in poor and more affluent areas of north Wales is branded "unacceptable" by a public health official.

Three scientists who "revolutionised" understanding of how the body fights infection have shared this year's Nobel prize for medicine.

Researchers say they have discovered why men may be more likely than women to develop type 2 diabetes - it is because they are biologically more susceptible.

It has emerged that Ralph Steinman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine this morning, died of pancreatic cancer last week.